Bernardus van Billion, SV/PROG

Doop: 3 September 1684 Baptizatus est Bernardus filius legitimus Lamberti van Billoen et Annae Stroobants.

Inventory 1746

VOC records date of death 22 November 1746

Owner of farm Coetzenburg part of his estate in 1746 !

Bernardus van Billion (van Biljon) arriveer op 11 Junie 1707 op die skip “Hoedekenzkerke” in die Kaap (volgens die VOC Scheepsoldijboek) vanaf Overijse, Brabant, België. Hy was deur die Verenigde Oos-Indiese Companjie (VOC), 'n handelsmaatskappy, as soldaat in diens geneem.

In the muster roll of 1717 he is listed as a soldier, stationed in the Land of Waveren, presumably on the Buitenpost there. (CD page 43)

On 2 December 1717, as a soldier of the Dutch East India Company, he signed a contract in the Castle at the Cape to serve Maria Sibella Sax, the wife of Pieter Jansz: Swanepoel,as a farm hand. This contract was renewed several times, so he presumably remained in her service until January 1722 (Cape Archives, CJ 2878,124).

In 1723 he petitioned the Council of Policy for Burgher rights, stating that he was from Overijs and had arrived at the Cape in 1707 as a soldier aboard the ship 'Hoedskenkerk' and had occupied himself since then mostly with agriculture. (quoted from: H.C.V.Leibbrandt, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope: Requesten (Memorials) volume IV, page 1253)

Tydens sy VOC diens was hy aan die Kaap de Goede Hoop gestasioneer by die buiteposte Groene Cloof en Land van Waveren. Hy het ook as wadrywer vir die VOC gewerk en het gedurende 1723 'n Vryburger geword. Grond aan die Nonnas- en Hexrivier is aan hom toegeken, maar vanaf 1728 kom sy naam in die distrikte Stellenbosch en Drakenstein voor.

His wives and children are given as listed in his Deceased Estate Accounts of 1747. In these accounts there are three farms mentioned, called 'Bonte Rivier', 'Groene Rivier' and 'Coetsenburg', as having been sold to various people.

Hy was vier keer getroud.

Gedurende 1724 tree hy te Drakenstein in die huwelik met Maria Walters, vermoedelik die dogter van Ernst Friedrich Walters, 'n leerlooier in diens van die VOC, en Maria van die Kaap.

Hulle drie kinders:

Anna ~ 6/11/1724 x Stellenbosch 20/10/1741 Barthlomeus Zaaiman. Volgens SAG xx 9/4/1764 Anton Kalteyer van Niederzeuzheim

Ernst Hendrik ~ 7/2/1727 x Stellenbosch 20/9/1753 Cornelia van Emmenis

Regina Barbara ~ 21/8/1729 x Paarl 15/9/1748 Sebastian Wolfaardt, stamvader van die Wolfaardts in Suid Afrika. xx Johannes Thomas Roodewald

Maria Walters sterf ongeveer 1731 en op 10/8/1732 trou Bernardus te Kaapstad, Anna Geertruida Fick, dogter van Antonij Fick en Maria van der Schelde.

Hulle vier kinders:

Maria ~ 6/9/1733 x 7/12/1755 Guillaume du Toit

Susanna ~ 17/7/1735 + vermoedelik voor 1742

Aletta ~ 9/9/1736 x 7/12/1755 Pieter Marais

Johanna Barbara ~ 13/9/1739 x 9/7/1780 P J de Villiers xx Stellenbosh 14/10/1787 Cornelius E Ponty

Anna Geertruida Fick sterf voor 1740 en Bernardus tree gedurende 1741 in die huwelik met Anna Cornelis, ~ 29/3/1680 en weduwee van Jan Barentsz Siger, afkomstig van Erfurt en dogter van Jan Cornelisz van oud Beijerland (ook bekend as Jan Bombam), en Catharina Harmenz van Rhenen.

Anna Cornelisz sterf teen die einde van 1742 en Bernardus trou op 12/4/1744 met Judith van der Wat, ~ 18/12/1724, dogter van Hendrik Jansz van der Wat en Margaretha Niemand. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKD-WSMG-2?cc=282...

Hulle een kind:

Anna Geertruida ~ Drakenstein 16/8/1744

Bernardus sterf teen die einde van 1746 waarna Judith x 25/6/1747 Casper Hendrik Badenhorst.

Bernardus van Billion is as ‘n baie welgestelde man oorlede en het plase agterlaat met name De Bonterivier, De Groenerivier, Coetzenburg, Vredenhof, De Nonna en ‘n erf in die huidige Kerk – en Van Ryneveld str in Stellenbosch.

BRONNE:

De Villiers/Pama Heese/Lombard

N G Kerk - Doop- en Huweliksregisters (Kaapstad, Drakenstein en Stellenbosch)

Opgaafrolle 1682-1782

VOC Generale Monsterrol 1708 - 1725 VOC Monsterrollen - Vrije Lieden 1702 -1750

Nagevors en saamgestel deur:

Jan van Biljon biljon@gom.co.za

Tobi Swart het die redigeer werk gedoen

EN SIEN: http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/biljon/I141.html